"If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather."

-- Danny Hillis

#Talking Quotes #Weather Quotes #Might Quotes

“I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.”

Source : George Boole (1952). “Collected Logical Works”
“The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!”
“Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.”
“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.”
“We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.”
“Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.”
“I have existed before Abraham was born.”

Source : James Moffatt (2014). “The New Testament: James Moffatt Translation”, Ravenio Books

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